{"id":123,"date":"2018-11-16T18:59:17","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T18:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/?p=123"},"modified":"2018-11-16T18:59:17","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T18:59:17","slug":"digging-for-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/digging-for-words\/","title":{"rendered":"DIGGING FOR WORDS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DIGGING FOR WORDS<\/strong><br \/>\nPeeking out from the dirt<br \/>\nat the stump&#8217;s base, that&#8217;s where I found them,<br \/>\nblack on white. I was throwing corn<br \/>\nto the squirrels. I dug with a stick,<br \/>\ndisturbing the earthworms. One crawled<br \/>\ninto the decaying wood.<\/p>\n<p>Did someone write a letter&#8211;love or Dear John&#8211;<br \/>\nonly to bury it? The magnetic words and letters<br \/>\nkept coming along with a penny and a blue<br \/>\nplastic dolphin. I cleaned it, gave it to Juanita,<br \/>\nshe has one on her business card. The penny,<br \/>\nI tossed into the spare change mug.<\/p>\n<p>Pieces were mudded together or joined<br \/>\nnorth to south. Spilled out of my hand<br \/>\nand into a jar from the recycle bin. Rinsed<br \/>\nthem three times, wiped the words dry,<br \/>\nstuck them on the cookie pan.<\/p>\n<p>After sorting them into categories-<br \/>\nbody parts, verbs, single letters-<br \/>\nI let them sit for a week. I didn&#8217;t<br \/>\nwrite a note or create strange lines.<br \/>\nI put them in a baggie,<br \/>\nstarted this poem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DIGGING FOR WORDS Peeking out from the dirt at the stump&#8217;s base, that&#8217;s where I found them, black on white. I was throwing corn to the squirrels. I dug with a stick, disturbing the earthworms. One crawled into the decaying wood. Did someone write a letter&#8211;love or Dear John&#8211; only to bury it? The magnetic&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/digging-for-words\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DIGGING FOR WORDS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-published-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions\/124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}